2010.54.2720

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Guardsmen Kill
Guardsmen Kill
1970
15.75 in HIGH x 11.12 in WIDE
(40.00 cm HIGH x 28.26 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.2720

Lower right corner of the photograph has the text: "Tarentum Valley Daily News via Associated Press". Verso has text handwritten in pencil and ink: "May 7, 1970 / May 7, 1970 / Kent State University Massacre / Anti Viet Nam War Demonstration".





The top of the poster has a newspaper heading with the text: "Final Daily News 8? / New York's Picture Newspaper". Below this header in large black letters is the text: "Guardsmen Kill". The bottom of the poster has a black and white half tone reproduction of an iconic photograph from the Kent State shootings that shows a woman on her knees with outstretched arms, crying out above a dead body. The image is overlaid with text in white: "Now Your / Daughters / And Sons".
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